Memorable Quotes From Game Commercials
Mike Bialecki
United States
Costa Mesa
California
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I was inspired by the recent "Games we used to play as kids" list to create this one. There are a number of board game commercials with quotes that have just the right amount cheese and nostalgia for us to inject into everyday conversation to subtely tell our friends, "Hey, I like boardgames. Look at me, I'm a geek". Hell...Movie Geeks do it all the time ("We are the Knights who say Nih!" "That's incontheivable"
 , why can't we Boardgame Geeks do it as well?
Since my memory isn't what it used to be, feel free to correct any misquotes and add anything I may have inevitably missed. Perhaps some of you youngn's could add some of the new classics that I'm not aware of. Or maybe you geezers could fill us all in on some classic Classics 
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Mike Bialecki
United States
Costa Mesa
California
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In my opinion, the hands down classic.
Girl: I won.
Boy: Where?
Girl: There, diagonally.
Boy: Pretty sneaky sis.
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Mike Bialecki
United States
Costa Mesa
California
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"It takes a very steady hand...."
I use this one way too often in real life.
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Mike Bialecki
United States
Costa Mesa
California
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"I'm the sole survivor"
I must admit that I had forgotten about this gem until somone on another list mentioned it. I used to love this game, although I'm not sure I ever played by the correct rules. I just kinda pulled the tabs in and out to figure out how everything worked. Did anyone every succeed in 'drawing' all the pixie dust off the inside of an Etch-a-Sketch to reveal the steal Hershey's kiss inside?
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Mike Bialecki
United States
Costa Mesa
California
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"You sank my Battleship!"
I love the "Bob Dobbs" artwork on these 1960s boardgames. I've got an old edition of Stratego that has a particularly goofy cover.
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Les Haskell
United States
Tennessee
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"Its all in the wrist action"
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Les Haskell
United States
Tennessee
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"He knocked my block off"
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Scott Starkey
United States
Dayton
Indiana
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"Bonkers is fun. Bonkers is nice. Bonkers is never the same game twice!" That damned ditty has been going through my head for the last 25 years. :-p
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Justin Green
United States
Des Moines
Iowa
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"You'll get caught up in the crossfire...crossFIRE...CROSSFIRE!!!"
With headband-and-mullet-wearing winner exclaiming, "YEAH YEAH YEAH!!!"
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Nate Sandall
United States
Portland
Oregon
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The Candyland commercial I remember had three little girls sing in unison "OOOOOOH Daddy's going down, down, down!"
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Nate Sandall
United States
Portland
Oregon
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"Play......the game.....of Li-ife!"
Eeek! Now that song is stuck in my head! Somebody sing me the Bonkers song fast!
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Nate Sandall
United States
Portland
Oregon
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"Push the plunger down, set the timer
Put the pieces in place
don't be slow
'cuz in Perfection you gotta move 'em fast (move 'em fast)
Or the pieces pop up before you put in the last!
And that's Perfection!"
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David Pollock
United States
Cedarburg
WI
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"And I was victorious!"
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A Spotlight on Games
United States
Bay Area
California
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I'm sure all the gamers will love this one... "Yahtzee, the FUN game that makes THINKING... fun!"
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Betty Dingus
United States
Austin
Texas
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I can still hear the voice over announcer on the commercial saying "Ga NIP, Ga NOP! It's Ga NIP Ga NOP!" "One player Ga NIPs, the other Ga NOPs..." (quote from a retro toy site)
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Scotty B
United States
Upstate
New York
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If you've got trouble, wait! Don't run! This kind of Trouble is lots of fun! Pop-O-Matic pops the dice [should have been die - ed.]. Pop a six and you move twice. Race your men around the track and try to send the others back. That's Pop-O-Matic Trouble! Watch the dice in the plastic bubble, it pops you in and out of trouble. Here comes Sister! LOOK OUT, JACK!! You've got trouble. You go back. The game is fun for Dad and Mother, and Sis can trouble her mean old brother.
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David Stephens
United States
St. Louis
Missouri
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STRAA--TEEEEE--GOOH-OOOH!
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Markus Wolf
United States
Bridgman
Michigan
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If you wanna win the game
you gotta (blah blah blah blah)
And get the most marbles with your HIPPOS!
Playin' Hungry Hungry Hippos! (Ba da ba da ba da)
Hungry Hungry Hippos! (Ba da ba da ba da)
(I never understood what you had to do to win the game according to the commercial.)
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D Weimer
United States
Unspecified
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"There's no such thing as a friendly game of Ruffhouse."
This was, of course, the English edition of the popular German game, Rufhaus. :-)
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David Fair
United States
Rockville
Maryland
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"Spin the Spinner and call the dots
Twister will tie you up in a knot
You reach, and stretch.
You balance and twist.
Try it once, you'll get the gist."
No two twists come out the same,
Twister is a Milton Bradley Game."
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Rob
United States
New York
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Music in the commercial had the lyrics:
"Mr. Mouth...Mr Mouth..."
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Gary Heidenreich
United States
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
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"Roll the dice, move the mice, build a traaaap!"
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Stephen Cope
United States
Boston
Massachusetts
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Kid 1: "I'll use my broadsword!"
Kid 2: "FIRE OF WRATH!"
My brother and I still quote this commercial often...
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Dave Lartigue
United States
Springfield
Massachusetts
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Someone erroneously referenced it earlier:
"I'm going up, up, up the ladder!"
"Daddy's going down, down, down!"
(The US version, with s/Snakes/Chutes.)
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24.
Board Game: Blip
[Average Rating:3.81 Unranked]
Dave Lartigue
United States
Springfield
Massachusetts
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"Blip, blip, blip, blip, blip, blip, blip, blip..."
Tomy should have had a class-action suit on their hands for this one. Dear god this wretched, buzzing, boring thing wasn't anywhere close to what was advertised.
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cortney golub
United States
California
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I was in the 1987 commercial for the board game Dr. Tangle. I am trying to track down the video to show my students. Anyone have an idea? The producers no longer exist apparently and I can't seem to get a lead. Any help is greatly appreciated.
corts1117@gmail.com
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Coquitlam
British Columbia
<cries>
Unspecified
wiggly worms, ya just can't catch 'em,
wiggly worms, ya just can't catch 'em,
those wiggly worms!
AHHHH!
New York
When was the last time you saw a commercial on t.v. for a board game...
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Orleans
Massachusetts
When was the last time you saw a commercial on t.v. for a board game...
When was the last time you were watching morning cartoons?